Responding to mounting pressure for data on the pandemic’s impact on communities of color, the Trump administration today asked states to begin including race and ethnicity with test results.
w/ @noahweilandhttps://t.co/7SkZItQMv4

There was some upheaval on the Warp Speed team last month: Dr. Peter Marks, a renowned federal scientist and vaccine expert who devised and led the project, left it in part because of concerns over its new chief's potential conflicts of interest https://t.co/qN3oeOxXJ9

Scoop w/ @SangerNYT: The Trump administration has selected its final 5 candidates for a coronavirus vaccine, a major step for "Operation Warp Speed." Phase 3 trials are likely to begin next month. https://t.co/qN3oeOxXJ9

Christi Grimm, the top internal watchdog at HHS, was careful not to directly criticize the president. But she made clear on Tuesday that nothing should be done to “impair” the independence of her or any IG’s work. https://t.co/mkubmtnnNH

There is one government doctor who has studiously avoided attention, even as he takes care of some of the most powerful people in the country: Dr. Brian P. Monahan, the Capitol physician. My profile, here --> https://t.co/tKgUwiCoR8

Slaoui acknowledged the 12-18 month timeline the president has rejected as too slow was already aggressive and that Fauci was not wrong. But he said he wouldn't have taken the job if he didn't do it. https://t.co/wfhpyQ9F6a

As @MarkMazzettiNYT points out here, the Mueller report was the opposite of what Bill Barr claims—it was a book-length text that showed over and over how hard prosecutors worked to not seek an outcome https://t.co/7kr7Z7v5uP

The task force "was a comforting symbol for people scared about the virus’s spread and looking for a sign the White House was taking it seriously." @noahweiland@SangerNYT and me on today's developments https://t.co/0PAMcsjiFj

Per reporting from @noahweiland and me, POTUS continues to ask people impatiently why, if the new testing sites have been created/states are increasing testing, the federal government keeps getting blamed for it. https://t.co/rljDd2KBB2

An exasperated Trump recently called Alex Azar, his health secretary, about why the Trump administration was still seen as responsible for testing, when (in his view) it’s now up to states and cities to figure it out https://t.co/IRS08VMbpF

Scoop w/ @maggieNYT: Oracle is talking to the White House about an online program that could track patients taking hydroxychloroquine, or even help distribute it. The malaria drug isn't yet approved by the FDA as a coronavirus treatment. https://t.co/QwHEEPAvRR